You've seen them before: the UX ploys designed to trick you into spending money, or make it nearly impossible to unsubscribe. Here's what to look out for.

The company's latest APS-C mirrorless camera marries still photo pedigree with new video smarts, giving hybrid shooters the best of both worlds.

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In 2015, Oak Ridge National Laboratory produced the first plutonium fuel in the US in nearly 30 years. Now it’s headed to another planet.

The director of NIAID talks about vaccines, school reopenings, hostility toward science, and the lessons we’ll learn when (yes, when) we recover.

We found sales on vacuums, sound machines, gardening gadgets, and other tech to make your day a little less stressful.

Even as wild places crumble and collapse, people’s emotional connection to nature intensifies—but who bears the costs of our fawning over cute animals online?

Researchers collected sediment thousands of feet deep, filtered out bacteria, and revived the cells. But fear not—the destruction of humanity by ancient microbes is not nigh.

From Covid conspiracies to election scams, automated advertising software plays a large—and largely unseen—role.

If you want to avoid public transit, this e-scooter is an expensive but safe bet.

Sucker Punch's latest open-world videogame is fun enough and pretty enough but isn't interested in examining cultural tropes.

There are hundreds of trials currently in the works. Here’s everything you need to know about the ones edging ahead in the global race.

The power to end it is in your hands.

These wireless noise-canceling headphones bring the heat, with sleek design and sound to match.

Have you poured 1800 bowls of cereal in the past five months? You are not alone.

A ransomware hit and subsequent outage caused problems in the company's aviation services, including flight planning and mapping.

WIRED tested. After decades of running with water running down my face, the Treadbands workout headband let me see clearly.

The NIH research connecting anatomy and sex chromosomes could shed light on mental disorders. But the topic is sensitive, and such findings are easy to misuse.

“I see it as kind of a Wright brothers moment on another planet,” says the project's chief engineer at JPL.

Studies from around the world suggest that success depends on class size, distancing, the age of the students, and how prevalent the virus is locally.

This week's Get WIRED podcast traces how innovators' biases helped design slave ships, the panopticon, and facial recognition.

Attackers increasingly try to confuse and bypass machine-learning systems. So the companies that deploy them are getting creative.

OnePlus' new phone, the Nord, isn't available in the US at the moment, but its value is hard to beat. You get a 90-Hz screen, a big battery, great performance, and 5G for 399 euros.

Is this your card? A recent study found that participants will select the suit or number they were primed to choose.

Divination in the digital age has never been easier.

The hypothetical particles are a cornerstone of quantum gravity theories, but they’re famously hard to observe. Yet maybe they create detectable ‘noise.’

A proposal would require 60 percent of ride-hail miles to be in electric vehicles by 2030. And the companies are on board.

Make sure that your Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive data is protected—while still being easy for you to access.

A combination of technologies helped scientists discover a potentially illegal fishing operation involving more than 900 vessels.

Twitter hack details, a botnet vigilante, and more of the week's top security news.

The plots of land are key to the story of early human migration. But they're rapidly disappearing as infrastructure and agriculture encroach.

Smarten up your home and upgrade your audio with these discounts.

Here’s what WIRED staff has fallen for thanks to all of the extra time on our hands.

Dave Franco’s directorial debut is a lean thriller about a home share from hell.

Netflix's German science fiction series stuck the landing in its third and final season.

Apple aside, anticompetitive practices by Amazon, Facebook, and Google have corroded democracy and sabotaged the nation’s pandemic response.

Plus: An interview from the archives, the most-read story in WIRED history, and bottled-up screams.

This week, we discuss whether the Chinese-owned app is as much of a security risk as some claim, and where everyone would go if the platform went dark.

Drug and alcohol use has risen, but the pandemic could force some treatment centers out of business.

A previously unreported Fancy Bear campaign persisted for well over a year—and indicates that the notorious group has broadened its focus.

UC Davis scientists spent years editing a sex-determining gene into bovine embryos using Crispr. In April, Cosmo arrived—and his DNA reveals how far the field has to go.

This week, the executive producer of Grey’s Anatomy revealed that the show would tackle the pandemic “for sure.” Are we even ready for that?

The fourth Xbox is coming this year, and these are its first batch of trailers, including new Halo and Fable games.

Seismometers pick up human activity, like driving. When Covid arrived, scientists watched that global seismic noise plummet by 50 percent.

Even with immediate action, 710 million metric tons of plastic will enter the environment in the next two decades, scientists show. Welcome to Plastic Planet.

Musicians can make and release music pretty quickly in quarantine. Will it be what fans want to hear?

Abusers can use shared accounts to stalk and harass victims, and plans aren’t always easy to escape.

The new smartphone glass is the first significant improvement in scratch prevention from Corning's team in seven years.

The latest entry in the company’s legendary M-series is a luxurious camera for a different world.

In a former boxing gym in Racine, firefighters are trying out a spit test that’s simpler and cheaper than PCR. Could it change how we screen for the virus?